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A Tupperware of Ashes
A Tupperware of Ashes
Meera Syal is Queenie in Tanika Gupta's new play, a vivid and heart-breaking family drama about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth.
Until 16 November 2024
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, in Max Webster’s joyful and flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
21 November 2024 — 25 January 2025
Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes
The beloved best-selling book is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in this new adaptation by Kendall Feaver.
26 November 2024 — 22 February 2025
Alterations
Alterations
In an evening Walker Holt must complete a large order but it’s going to cost him. This seminal comedy illuminates the experience of the Windrush generation in 1970’s London
20 February — 5 April 2025
Dear England
Dear England
James Graham’s Olivier-Award winning smash-hit returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.
10 March — 24 May 2025
Here We Are
Here We Are
Two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello directs Stephen Sondheim’s ‘cool, and impossibly chic’ (New York Times Critic’s Pick) final musical with a book by David Ives.
23 April — 28 June 2025
London Road
London Road
Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork reunite for their award-winning verbatim musical. Rufus Norris directs this ‘Extraordinary show’ (Financial Times).
5 — 21 June 2025
Prima Facie is back in cinemas now
Catch Jodie Comer‘s Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller‘s gripping one-woman play.
Latest news
Celebrating five years of National Theatre Collection in schools
The best of British Theatre is available to stream for schools, universities, and the wider education sector. Free for all UK state schools and FE colleges.
The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
The landmark Tony Award®-winning production is now playing in the West End, for a strictly limited encore season.
Macbeth is now streaming
Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma star in Simon Godwin’s brand-new ‘full-voltage visceral’ (★★★★ Daily Telegraph) production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Christmas at Lasdun
Join us this festive season for delicious seasonal dining in our modernist restaurant on the South Bank.
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